January 25, 2019

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. As Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University, she is the first black and black female dean of a faculty of design. She leads the Cultures-Based Innovation Initiative focused on using old ways of knowing to drive innovation processes that directly benefit communities.

January 31, 2019

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth revisits the history of the public housing complex of the same name in St. Louis, Missouri. Famous within architectural history as an iconic failure of modernist planning and cited as an example of the inefficacy of public assistan…

February 1, 2019

Kick off a new year at the Jacob makerspace open house! Meet the design specialists, student supervisors, and other members of our interdisciplinary and creative community. Learn about Maker Pass resources and show your friends where you spend all of y…

February 25, 2019

Niloufar Salehi is an Assistant Professor in Berkeley’s School of Information. Her research centers on social computing, technologically mediated collective action, digital labor, and more broadly, human-computer-interaction (HCI). At Jacobs, she’ll di…